Murdoch Paper Phreaks Royal FamilyNew York Observer | Submitted by: ditchley
"In November 2005, three senior aides noticed odd things happening on their mobile phones. Messages they had never listened to appeared in their mailboxes as if already heard and saved... Equally peculiar were stories that began appearing about Prince William in one of the country's biggest tabloids, News of the World... By early January 2006, Scotland Yard had confirmed their suspicions: somehow two men at the paper had obtained the voicemail codes of the royal aides."

Lady Killer Bludgeons His ParentsNWCN | Submitted by: artemisia
"A Salem woman who wanted to get her children out of state custody was pressuring her boyfriend to get money from his parents when instead he snapped and murdered them on their Dallas farm... The 20-year-old killer and his 46-year-old girlfriend have been arrested... Dad died from stab wounds inflicted by a scythe. Mom had been beaten to death with a metal pipe."

Pregnant Slattern Punctures WifeyKansas City Star | Submitted by: baschalove
"A 42-year-old man and his pregnant, 20-year-old girlfriend were relaxing at a chain drive-thru when his wife showed up... The girlfriend responded by pulling out a screwdriver and stabbing the 45-year-old wife eight times in the head."

Dead Girlfriends Tell No TalesContra Costa Times | Submitted by: torchstar
"Valdemoro beat Sales to death in his bedroom, strangled Tran in her car during a police chase, and was shot dead at the supermarket after finding a meat cleaver... Unexplained bodies at a previous residence: Valdemoro's landlord apparently lived at the house for several days with the bodies of his wife and her friend, one inside and the other in the backyard. Vallejo police said Thursday they didn't know what to make of that, or the boxes of chemicals commonly used to make bombs found at the house and a storage locker he rented, or a container that was labeled depleted uranium."

Cancun Strip Club MolotovedBBC | Submitted by: BushJaw
"Six armed men threw gasoline bombs into a low-class bar offering table dances in Cancún, México. The bar had apparently been targeted for extortion by the Zeta Cartel... Six women and two men were killed in the ensuing blaze."

Must Store Blue Touchpaper ElsewhereCNN | Submitted by: gargoyle1
"An oil rig exploded 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana, with 13 people overboard... The accident took place 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana on the Vermilion Oil rig 380, which is owned by Houston-based Mariner Energy."

Total Immunity, But Just This OnceOregonian | Submitted by: anonymous
"A federal judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit by Oregon National Guard vets against KBR could proceed... Details of the contract have already raised congressional concern. Rep. Earl Blumenauer has written the Secretary of the Army demanding details of the agreement because American taxpayers -- and not KBR -- would pay if the war contractor is found to have harmed Oregon veterans; he responded that KBR's legal immunity in this case was a unique arrangement."

Montage: Baby Gets TipsyNew York Times | Submitted by: ditchley
"Thus began a troubled toddler's journey from one doctor to another, from one diagnosis to the next, involving ever more drugs. Autism, bipolar disorder, hyperactivity,insomnia, oppositional defiant disorder. The boy's daily pill regimen multiplied: the antipsychotic Risperdal, the antidepressant Prozac, two sleeping medicines and one for attention-deficit disorder. All by the time he was three! Ultimately he was found to suffer mostly from family turmoil and language delays."

Let's Grow Old And Senile TogetherNew York Daily News | Submitted by: MikeAcidECW
"A 63-year-old North Carolina woman was found shot to death in her home by an ex-boyfriend after having just recently changed her relationship status."

Sick of Tulips, Dutch Plant Dead BabiesCNN | Submitted by: gargoyle1
"A recently buried baby body was found on Sunday in a shed behind the house, and two more were dug up shortly after in the garden... Police are now focusing on a garden terrace and the garage drive, both of which were newly paved only three weeks ago."

Driver Crashes The Corpse TruckAustralian Broadcasting | Submitted by: BushJaw
"Ecuadoran Freddy Lala, who has now been repatriated, survived the massacre in Mexico's north-eastern Tamaulipas state despite being shot in the face. He led police to the 72 bodies found bound, blindfolded and stacked against a wall inside a ranch warehouse, in the largest mass killing yet discovered in Mexico's escalating drug violence... The truck carrying the bodies of the migrants crashed into two cars on its way through Mexico City."

Padlocked MI6 Agent Remains EnigmaTelegraph | Submitted by: ditchley
"The holdall was padlocked shut and inside was a lifeless body, and it appeared that the body was in an advanced state of decay... Remembered by school mates as a "maths genius", Mr Williams was on a one-year secondment to MI6 from GCHQ, the government's "listening post" in Cheltenham, Glos, where he worked for almost a decade."

Butt Brothers Lynching: Cops Did NothingBBC | Submitted by: BushJaw
"Five Pakistani constables have been remanded in jail on charges they failed to stop the lynching of Mughees and Muneeb Butt last month." Submitter writes: "This story has received extreme reaction all over Pakistan. People are calling for the immediate execution of the police involved. Nowhere have I seen any concrete proof or allegation that the Butt Brothers were dacoits [bandits], but many statements that they were innocent... There is a great outpouring of grief and shock nationwide."

Failure To Assimilate Hid Amish IncestNew York Times | Submitted by: artemisia
"Since their arrival here in the 1940s, the Amish of Pike County have eked out an existence amid this area's network of gravel roads and rusting cornfields. Theirs is a deeply private world, conducted mainly in a dialect of German, whose members travel by horse-and-buggy and support their families by working as butchers, farmers and cabinetmakers... "We tried to work with it ourselves," insisted the bishop. "We punished him, and he owned up to it. We put him away from the church, as a community."

A Whale of a NecropsyPalm Beach Post | Submitted by: KneeDeepInTheDead
"When a passerby told Hogan, fishing at dawn today for blue crab, that a 7-foot whale had come ashore with the high tide and died, he calmly walked over, pulled his fishing knife and cut away two feet of it, tail and all. Why? "To eat it!" he exclaimed, puffing on a butt in a pastel shirt and pith helmet."

McCloud Not So Sure About This Chad FellowWSVN-TV 7 Miami | Submitted by: artemisia
"Coach McCloud thought it was odd that "Chad" kept his helmet on even when the game was over. "Like he was hiding," McCloud said... "Come on now, tell us the truth. Who are you? He looked me right in the eye and said, I swear I am who I say I am! I'm Chad Jordan."

Piss Beasts Conquer Council HouseSheffield Telegraph | Submitted by: Danger Mouse
"Most nights there are kids hanging around in the stairwell, smoking, throwing up and urinating... I was walking up the stairs and there were two lads standing there urinating. I said to them, You filthy swines. They turned and aimed at me, leaving me soaking! Then they swore at me and told me to get back to my flat. Ah when I was their age."